I am.
This is.
I am this.
I am.
This is.
I am this.
No escape
When one is not looking for any escape at all, but finds oneself participating in whatever thoughts, feelings, perceptions, etc. make up the constituents of THIS very moment, without any hope that things will get ‘better,’ including that one will ‘eventually’ be ‘enlightened,’ then one is IN the moment, and it is only IN the moment that anything true, anything real, anything that is not escapism and fantasy, will be found.
Robert Saltzman
So whereas most teachings point elsewhere, point to an improved condition that you will attain by following the teaching, I point only to what you are right now in this moment. The one who is reading these words is IT, and there is no other.
No escape
When one is not looking for any escape at all, but finds oneself participating in whatever thoughts, feelings, perceptions, etc. make up the constituents of THIS very moment, without any hope that things will get ‘better,’ including that one will ‘eventually’ be ‘enlightened,’ then one is IN the moment, and it is only IN the moment that anything true, anything real, anything that is not escapism and fantasy, will be found.
Robert Saltzman
So whereas most teachings point elsewhere, point to an improved condition that you will attain by following the teaching, I point only to what you are right now in this moment. The one who is reading these words is IT, and there is no other.
We imagine spiritual enlightenment as a state of unbroken happiness and doubtless certainty. But as Chogyam Trungpa famously said, "Enlightenment is the ultimate and final disappointment," because it turns out to be the recognition that everything is included in this wholeness, even unhappiness and uncertainty—and furthermore, that there is no such thing as an enlightened person.
Abiding Nowhere
We imagine spiritual enlightenment as a state of unbroken happiness and doubtless certainty. But as Chogyam Trungpa famously said, "Enlightenment is the ultimate and final disappointment," because it turns out to be the recognition that everything is included in this wholeness, even unhappiness and uncertainty—and furthermore, that there is no such thing as an enlightened person.
Abiding Nowhere
There is nothing wrong with not knowing what to think about anything.
There is nothing wrong with not knowing what to think about anything.
Our personal truth is the unedited, uncurated totality of our being.
Our personal truth is the unedited, uncurated totality of our being.
Waking up is recognising that we are the totality of all that we are. Becoming whole is seeing and accepting everything about us, the dark and the light. Our integration is complete when we fully accept every aspect of ourselves unconditionally.
Waking up is recognising that we are the totality of all that we are. Becoming whole is seeing and accepting everything about us, the dark and the light. Our integration is complete when we fully accept every aspect of ourselves unconditionally.
Awake awareness has nothing to do with therapy, happiness or self improvement.
Awake awareness has nothing to do with therapy, happiness or self improvement.
Awareness destroys the craving or longing) without the pseudo-subject (“me”) trying to do anything.…
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